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   From: liamreverse@valentijn.nu   
      
   Op 16-7-2025 om 19:54 schreef anim8rfsk:   
   > The Doctor  wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Wouter Valentijn   wrote:   
   >>> Op 15-7-2025 om 10:30 schreef Ubiquitous:   
   >>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
   >>>>> Melissa Hollingsworth  wrote:   
   >>>>>> anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Melissa Hollingsworth  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>>>> "Spock's Brain" may be the worst episode of any Star Trek series. I   
   >>>>>>>> haven't seen every episode of every series, but I still suspect it   
   >>>>>>>> is.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> The writer intended it as a comedy and little Freddie Fryberger, the   
   new   
   >>>>>>> producer who was trying to destroy the show declared arbitrarily that   
   >>>>>>> Star Trek didn?t do comedies (because he wouldn?t verse himself in the   
   >>>>>>> episode they already done) and had them shoot a comedy script as a   
   drama.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I'm trying to imagine as a comedy. Hunh.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> But at least it?s laughable. The Empath is simply stupid and cringe   
   >>>>>>> worthy.And I can think of a dozen worse episodes of TNG. Maybe not any   
   >>>>>>> of DS nine.Almost all of Voyager. Much of Enterprise. And all of new   
   >>>>>>> trek.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Really? What episodes of TNG would you say are worse than "Spock's   
   >>>>>> Brain"?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I guess there was that one where the bridge crew turned into children.   
   >>>>>> That was an eyeroller. I'd still call "Spock's Brain" worse, though.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The aforementioned sub rosa.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> That one towards the end where data turns into a Mayan.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> AKA, The Brent Spiner One-Man Acting Extraviganza!   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> That one Gates McMuffin directed where everybody on the Enterprise   
   devolves   
   >>>>> into a different species.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I hate magic DNA but I hate when they get the real stuff wrong. Geordi   
   >>>> didn't "devolved" into a primate, Troi "devolved" into an arachnid, etc   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Troi was amphibious. Barclay was the spider.   
   >>>   
   >>> --   
   >>> Wouter Valentijn   
   >>>   
   >>> Xander: "I'm a Comfortador also."   
   >>> Buffy the Vampire Slayer (s04e22): Restless   
   >>>   
   >>> http://www.nksf.nl/   
   >>   
   >> Nice to see you again.   
   >   
   > Ditto!   
   >   
      
      
      
   Thank you!   
      
   --   
   Wouter Valentijn   
      
   Xander: "I'm a Comfortador also."   
   Buffy the Vampire Slayer (s04e22): Restless   
      
   http://www.nksf.nl/   
      
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